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Show iWGMAN ACTS AS I : DUPE MIDI, I Texas Farmer Girl Admits Rob-bery Rob-bery of Unsuspecting Chicago Men j CHICAGO. Jan. 18. Mrs Cleopatra Hurtzman. 23, who until two months agp had spent her life milking cows, feeding chickens and helping run a farm neat Wichita Falls, Texas, was quoted by th- police confessing that she was the woman bandit who had played the leading pa. I in fifty hold-ups hold-ups in sixt days. "A smile or ,1 tear were my chief weapons." she was quoted as saying. "but I also carried a little pearl-hand-revolver." Mis. Hurtsrnan said she was married I to Kurt Hurtxman two months ago and then left the farm 10 come here with "His health failed, he lost his Job. became to,, fond ot whisky and then fell In wlih thieves," sh said. "Wo 1 decided to bei om.- bandits "1 ... e, ,i hue Kurt would rent a room in a fashJOnabli district. When - I I met a prosperous Looking person. I managt d to force a tear. I told him I was lost and wanted to find a ccr-tain ccr-tain address When he- explained that it was oniy a tew uoors distant, 1 H smUed and he generally would volun- j teer to accompany me. "When the number was reached. I , Ither persuadi d him to enter with me ! or brought forth Ihe pistol. In either case, I took him Into the room where Kurl took his money. It was simple. Sometimes we held up five or six per-j per-j sons a dav. It made mo wonder why I . spent twenty-three years on a farm, il so easy." The Hurtzmans evaded arrest until I four .b ti Ctlvea waited for them at a gH I room they had rented. |